With less than a week to go until municipal elections in Detroit, a report has shown Ambassador Bridge owner Matty Moroun has thrown his financial support behind Benny Napoleon, a former Detroit Police Department chief.

The company involved in the controversial storing of large amounts of petroleum coke on Detroit’s riverfront will study its next move after being denied a permit from the city to store the black oil sands byproduct on the site, said a spokesman for the company.

Detroit Mayor Dave Bing, whose city has been teetering towards bankruptcy, gave a warm thanks Friday to Windsor after receiving a cheque from the Downtown Windsor BIA to help towards the cost of policing Monday’s fireworks spectacle.

Politicians upset about Detroit’s new emergency manager can do one of two things: They can let pride get in the way and bring down the city, or they can let this man do his job and potentially save Detroit from itself.

I don’t know about impossible, but given that it’s taken almost 20 years to churn out five instalments of this series – something the early Bond franchise managed in six years, and the 1960s M:I TV show in just six weeks – these missions are certainly a lot of work